Improvement in vapor-baths



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EEIGEO- CARRIE AURELIA MUNRO, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TERRITORY.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR-BATHS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,149, dated May 19,1874; application filed April 21, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be.it known that I, CARRIE A. MUNRo, of Salt Lake City, in the county ofSalt Lake and Territory of Utah, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Medicated Vapor-Baths, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexeddrawing, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my bath, with a portion ofthe top removed or broken away; and Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinalsection of the same taken below the top.

Identical letters are used in the designation of like parts in bothgures.

This invention relates to a certain improvement in medicatedvapor-baths; and it consists of a house having two lower apartments,with one of which communicates an upper one; of a platform mounted uponwheels, traveling in grooves or ways in the floor of the house, andsecured to the door or movable end of the latter, and certain otherelements, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, A, refers to the house, which is provided withtwo lower apartments, B C, and an upper one, D, which communicates withthe apartment C at d, by which the fumes or vapor of the medicine beingvaporized in the said apartment C enter the apartment D, from which thesame is inhaled by the patient through flexible tubes d1 allcommunicating therewith, as shown in Fig. 2. In each of the apartments BC is placed an alcoholic lamp or vessel, b c, suitably supported upon aplatform or shelf, b c', and

over which is supported a plate or vessel, d2 e, upon metallic frames,adjusted to the said lamps or vessels. f f are doors in the house A togain access to the heatingvessels b c. E F are drawers in the upper partof the house for holding medicine. G is a platform fastcned to the innerside of the door or movable end g of the house, so as to move with it,and which forms an expeditious means of 4running the platform in and outof the house, it being supplied with or mounted upon wheels g g',

traveling in ways or longitudinal grooves in the floor of the house.chair, secured upon the platform G. Adjusted between and having lateralanges iitting beneath ways t, secured upon the platform G, is areceptacle, I, which acts as a foot-rest, or it may be used as afoot-bath by removing its cover, and putting water therein in which toimmerse the patients feet. J is a curtain interposed between the lamp orheatA ing-vessel b and the patient to regulate or vary the temperatureof that end of the house or chamber having the patient. A ventila tor,K, is supplied in one side of the house to allow external air to enterthe patients chamn ber, and which can be cut off by a slide adjusted soas to open and close the said ventilator. The patient controls a fan,Il, hung or journaled in and between uprights l, secured upon the top ofthe house, in proximity with the opening in said top, up through whichhis neck, when he is seated, passes, by means of a cord, Z1, passingover a pulley, l2, supported in a bifurcated post in the top of thehouse, and thence down through the said top, Sto., to the patient. -Uponthe upper edge of the door g is a horizontal tapering board or sec onddoor, m, for closing the opening of ingress and egress to the orifice oropening in the top of the house for the reception. of the patients neck.M M are semicircular col lars, which are pivoted to the top of thehouse, and encircle the patients neck to prevent the escape of the fumesor vapor, or the ingress of air at this point. One of these collars-`that one contiguous to the end of the house is provided with thehead-rest m.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

l. In a medicated vapor-bath, the house A, having the two lowerapartments, B C, with one of which-the one marked or lettered C-1communicates a third or upper one, I), through an opening, d,substantially as and for theA purpose set forth.

2. The platform G, supported upon wheels II is the patients and securedto the inner surface of the movcombination with collar M and house A,sub4 sible eml or door g of the house, substantially stantially as andfor the purpose set forth. as and for the purpose specified. Intestimony whereof I have hereunto .5. The house A, platform Gr g, withthe signed my name Jhis 25th day of March, 1874, chair II, and foot bathor rest I, curtain J, in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

chamber B, and lamp or heating-Vessel b, with CARRIE AURELIA MUNRO. JtheVaporiziug-pau d2, all substantially as and IVitnesses: for the purposespecified. JACOB S. FIETZ,

4. The collar M, having the head-rest m', in HENRY J. STEVENS.

